ARLINGTON (ANP/RTR) - Bij een ongeluk aan boord van het Amerikaanse vliegdekschip USS Eisenhower voor de kust van de Amerikaanse staat Virginia zijn maandagavond (lokale tijd) vier opvarenden gewond geraakt. De marine meldt in een bericht op X dat het misging tijdens de landing van een vliegtuig op het schip.

De twee piloten van het landende vliegtuig gebruikten hun schietstoel. "Zij werden door reddingswerkers opgepikt en zijn veilig teruggebracht naar het schip", aldus de marine. De twee worden door medisch personeel nagekeken. Het is onduidelijk of zij verwondingen hebben opgelopen.

Aan boord van het schip raakten door het ongeluk vier bemanningsleden gewond. Een matroos werd voor niet-levensbedreigende verwondingen overgebracht naar een ziekenhuis in Norfolk in Virginia.

Het is onduidelijk hoe het ongeluk kon gebeuren. De marine heeft verder geen details bekendgemaakt. Eerder dit jaar werd grootschalig onderhoud aan het vliegdekschip afgerond.

WASHINGTON (ANP) - De Amerikaanse minister van Buitenlandse Zaken Marco Rubio heeft in een interview met Fox News gezegd dat een "buitenlandse speler" betrokken was bij het incident op de Britse luchtmachtbasis afgelopen weekend. Groot-Brittannië heeft dit nog niet bevestigd. De antiterreurbrigade van de Britse politie liet maandag wel weten de betrokkenheid van een andere staat te onderzoeken.

"Wat er gebeurd is, wat bijna gebeurd is, wat had kunnen gebeuren in Groot-Brittannië afgelopen weekend, is een heel serieuze situatie", zei buitenlandminister Rubio. Hij leverde geen bewijs voor zijn bewering dat een buitenlandse speler betrokken was.

Bij de RAF-luchtmachtbasis nabij Fairford in het zuidwesten van Engeland werden vijf Britse mannen opgepakt die worden verdacht van het beramen van een aanslag. De basis wordt ook door het Amerikaanse leger gebruikt, onder meer voor het stationeren van bommenwerpers die waren betrokken bij aanvallen op Iran dit voorjaar.

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Die Linke’s surge was propelled by a compelling promise: for voters to have the freedom to stay in their city. This is how to fight back against the far right

The German leftwing party Die Linke won the state elections in Berlin on 20 September. It’s unclear whether the party will be able to form a coalition, appoint its lead candidate Elif Eralp as mayor, and follow through on her core campaign promise: to socialise the housing stock of the city’s biggest real-estate companies. A barrage of accusations started to circulate immediately after the results came in. Even by the standards of present-day polarisation, the pitch was extreme.

On the basis of one leaked chat and one rapper’s performance, the party was described as schmoozing with criminal clans and endangering the lives of Berlin Jews. Accusations of antisemitism prompted the Greens and the SPD – potential coalition partners – to question any potential cooperation, while “alt-right” opinion-makers suggested that “Hamas and Hezbollah” had won the elections, or that the German Democratic Republic (the old East Germany) was about to come back. Alice Weidel of the rightwing AfD alleged that Die Linke intended to “shoot the rich”.

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I felt a duty to write about the Tang dynasty and its incredible social and cultural sophistication – but also to connect my Chinese past with my child

During the Tang dynasty, which lasted from the seventh to the early 10th century, Vikings were raiding the coasts of what today is called Europe. In the small archipelago now known as Britain, Anglo-Saxon kingdoms flitted by. Meanwhile, in Mesoamerica, after 3,000 years of flourishing, the Maya civilisation was collapsing. In the east, China had been united for nine centuries and the Tang dynasty was already a proverbial high point of world culture.

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Fear of outsiders is the defining issue of our times. But is it actually our own selves we’re scared of? And could art hold the answers? Here, the British Art Show’s curator reveals why he’s exploring our deepest dreams and nightmares

One of the moral low points of Keir Starmer’s tenure at Downing Street was his “island of strangers” speech, with its rhetorical echoes of Enoch Powell and dispiriting description of a nation fractured by difference. After widespread criticism, Starmer recanted his words, if not the sentiment behind them. Yet his choice of language was a reminder of how the idea of the stranger – representing immigration, but also wider, more inchoate anxieties about otherness and difference – holds such a potent place in Britain today.

In fact, from masked anti-migrant protesters on the south coast to xenophobic riots over the summer, from politicians vowing to stop the boats to immigration polling as the No 1 concern among UK voters, it’s probably true to say that fear of the stranger is the totemic issue of our times.

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The number of luxury sheds and garden rooms has rocketed since the pandemic – fuelled by those wanting an office, a gym or extra living space. Meanwhile, the resentment between neighbours has been rising, too

Linda loves her shed. She loves that she can work there rather than in her dining room, which her toddler likes to tear through. She loves its Scandinavian vibe – it’s clad in wood and set on decking at the bottom of her garden. She loves the views of the countryside from the window by her desk. Or she did. Her desk faces the wall now, because she’s too nervous to face her neighbour. She never sits on the decking, either. “What if they see me?” she says. “It’s a horrible feeling.”

Linda’s neighbours are unhappy about her shed, or “garden room”, which is actually two rooms. They do not like its size (7.25 metres by 2.74 metres, or 3.5 metres if you include the raised decking) or its position, about 30 metres away from their house. Linda says they have barely spoken since the construction, which is awkward, as the gardens are separated by a low fence.

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An encampment is sprawling across Puerta del Sol plaza in central Madrid in protest against the ‘rentier economy’

Wielding a broom and dustpan, Marta García, 60, darted past the edges of tents, sweeping up bits of litter as she passed a poster that read: “What kind of times are these, when we need to defend the obvious?”

On Saturday, as tens of thousands of people took to the streets of Madrid to protest against the country’s deepening housing crisis, the retired schoolteacher was among a small group who had sought to take the protest one step further.

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The UK communities secretary decried protests by ‘men in black wearing face masks’ and those ‘whipping up hatred’ towards lifeboat volunteers

Far-right marches led by the self-styled “Danny Tommo” should not be treated like normal protests, the communities secretary, Angela Rayner, has said, calling the marches “intimidation” that should not be permitted.

Rayner said the behaviour of some masked marchers – who have blocked roads and transport hubs – was not an acceptable form of protest.

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The US secretary of state offered no evidence for his claims, and also said many people were ‘disturbed’ that the five suspects had been released on bail

US secretary of state Marco Rubio has said unequivocally that a foreign actor was involved in the suspected UK bomb plot at RAF Fairford, hours after the five suspects arrested close to the airbase were released on bail.

“What could have happened in the UK over the weekend is a ‌very serious situation,” Rubio said in an interview with Fox News on Monday evening, adding that it “clearly involves the hands ‌of a foreign actor.”

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Vandaag krijgen we te maken met een echte, onvervalste nazomerdag. Er is flink wat zon en het blijft de hele dag droog. Vanmiddag loopt de temperatuur op naar 25 graden en heel lokaal misschien zelfs 26 graden. Voor eind september zijn dat natuurlijk bijzonder hoge temperaturen.

Heel Italië staat op zijn kop vanwege de 800e sterfdag van Franciscus van Assisi. De heilige wordt vaak in één adem genoemd met dierendag, maar klopt dat wel?

De schermtijd van je kind bijhouden of schadelijke websites filteren: het kan met speciale apps voor ouders.

In honor of the 50th anniversary of the legendary Songs in the Key of Life, the one and only Stevie Wonder has released an EP of four songs recorded for the album but left on the cutting room floor.

Coverage on Pitchfork
Lyrics on Genius
Streaming on YouTube, Spotify, and surely other places that aren't as dystopian... but in the middle of all the dystopia, this brought me some unexpected joy, and I wanted to share it with you all! Previ ously